The Playlist: Review: 'The We & The I' Is A Testing, Patronizing Let-Down From Michel Gondry

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Review: 'The We & The I' Is A Testing, Patronizing Let-Down From Michel Gondry Mar 7th 2013, 23:56 Like some Gallic version of Tim Burton, Michel Gondry's initial promise has given way to a series of films whose diminishing returns demonstrate that he's a talented visualist without the capacity for, or worse, any interest in, telling an actual story. Gondry's defenders will, of course, point to the excellent "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," but the passage of years has made it abundantly clear that the credit for that film is entirely screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's; Gondry may have gotten out of the way of that script, but that's hardly a reason to celebrate his skills or capabilities, such as they are, beyond that. The messy "Be Kind, Rewind," the cutesy-creepy "The Science of Sleep," the noisome and needless "Green Hornet"...Gondry's name above a title has gone from being a reason to seek a film to being a reason to shun it. "The We and the I," was probably seen as a potential return to some past form; with great regret, I must state that it is not. Unspooling... Media files: the-we-and-the-i.jpg (image/jpeg)

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